Fall 2023 Graduate Admission Short Response Prompts
Write a response to one of the following questions. You may select which question you’d like to respond to.
- The late Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman once claimed that architecture is Oedipal in nature – for new architects and their ideas to take hold, old ones must be “killed” off. What is one architectural idea you’d like to see go?
Read about Tigerman’s claim in his interview with Fresh Meat, our student publication: https://mascontext.com/observations/no-compromise-an-interview-with-stanley-tigerman/
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Reyner Banham loved Los Angeles. Faculty member Stewart Hicks thinks the Thompson Center is awesome. What undervalued architectural object has your affection?
Learn about Stewart’s views on the Thompson Center on his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYAm24PkejQR2xMgJgn7xwg
Find out what our other faculty are into here: https://arch.uic.edu/people/facultystaff
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Architecture is buildings. It is also the media – drawings, photographs, models, videos, and written words – that surround them. What piece of media has influenced how you think about architecture?